Dear Frank & Incubator committee,
Here's our Geonetwork opensource incubation request. I hope I filled out everything clear enough.
Ciao,
Jeroen
1. Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner.
Jeroen Ticheler - Jeroen.Ticheler@anonymised.com or Jeroen@anonymised.com
2. Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).
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3. Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all official committers
Andrea Carboni - acarboni@anonymised.com - consultant to FAO
Roberto Giaccio - r.giaccio@anonymised.com - consultant to FAO
Stefano Giaccio - sgiaccio@anonymised.com - consultant to FAO & WFP
4. Please describe your Project.
GeoNetwork opensource is a Free and Open Source catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerfull metadata editing and search functions as well as an embedded interactive web map viewer. This website contains information related to the use and development of the software.
5. Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?
Work towards better integrated geospatial tools. Develop a strong Java geospatial software stack. Awareness raising and common branding and marketing.
6. Type of application does this project represent(client, server, standalone, library, etc.):
Catalog and map client, catalog and cascading map server, can be run on server and as stand alone.
7. Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.
- Jeeves - http://sourceforge.net/projects/jeeves - a library originally developed as part of GeoNetwork opensource but later split out as it provides generic functionality.
- InterMap opensource - http://sourceforge.net/projects/intermap - a web based map client that is shipped as part of the GeoNetwork software but is maintained in its own versioning system.
Other libraries / applications used: GeoTools, Lucene, McKoi, JZKit, log4j, jdom, dlib, uuid, jetty
8. Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.
No relationship
9. Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?
GPL
10. Is there already a beta or official release?
Yes, see http://geonetwork-opensource.org . Currently version 2.0.2 is available
11. What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education, government, or some other source)?
Spatial data harmonization efforts at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and of the United Nations World Food Program. Later joined by other UN agencies and NGO's
12. Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any standard (CITE for example)? If not, is it the intention of the project owners to seek certification at some point?
Standards are at the core of the project. These are OGC and ISO TC211 standards:
- ISO 19115/19139 standards for geographic metadata
- OGC Catalog Services for the Web 1.0 (CSW) (Z39.50)
- OGC CSW 2.0.1 under implementation as OGC CITE reference implementation
- OGC WMS 1.1.1
- FGDC metadata
- Dublin Core metadata
- RSS & GeoRSS
13. Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the copyright?
Yes
14. How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?) to the project at this time?
3 to 5 people
15. How many people have commit access to the source code respository?
4 at present, likely to increase soon
16. Approximately how many users are currently using this project?
Not sure, but well over 100
17. What type of users does your project attract (government, commercial, hobby, academic research, etc. )?
Government and NGO's, academic and commercial
18. If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project of the OSGeo Foundation?
We intend to host portions of the project on the OSGEO infrastructure
19. Does the project include an automated build and test?
Not at this stage.
20. What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)
Java, XSLT
21. What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French, Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?
English
22. What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project? How many users do you expect to download the project when it is released?
Size: about 12 MB per installer
Downloads: about 500 downloads a month at present